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The New 10@10 / Re: 18 May 2016: it's 2000

« on: May 20, 2016, 10:46:32 AM »

#10 is kind of snoozy to end the set, but I really liked the Gorillas song & the NSYNC one which was huge but I rarely hear anymore.

Also, I disagree with the previous comments, in that I'd actually like to hear more 2000s sets. IIRC we definitely didn't get them once a week before...it was closer to once a month. Going about 10 years back seems like a good rule of thumb.

2000 sets could be interesting, but the problem is that most of the songs used (at least KFOG's) 10@10s are still in heavy rotation.  If some lesser exposed hits / deeper cuts were used, I think it could work out.

100% agreed. I’d prefer the 2000 sets to feature songs that aren’t commonly heard on KFOG or other stations. Songs that were big hits but not big recurrents would be ideal. For that matter, I’d prefer all sets to be like this, but of course it’s easier for the pre-90s sets.

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The New 10@10 / Re: 18 May 2016: it's 2000

« on: May 20, 2016, 09:01:51 AM »

#10 is kind of snoozy to end the set, but I really liked the Gorillas song & the NSYNC one which was huge but I rarely hear anymore.

Also, I disagree with the previous comments, in that I'd actually like to hear more 2000s sets. IIRC we definitely didn't get them once a week before...it was closer to once a month. Going about 10 years back seems like a good rule of thumb.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: May 16, 2016, 11:07:02 AM »

Could they really be bringing Rosalie back "by popular demand"? That would seem to go against everything they've done in the last 6 weeks, no?

While this is true...most of what they’ve already done in the last 6 weeks has also gone against everything else they’ve done in the last 6 weeks. The regular regular playlist is, erm, ‘mellow’, so Acoustic Sunrise would not really be out of place.

Why would she go back there after being dumped the way she and the others were? 

While I’d be pissed and probably not go back if I was in her situation...she’s probably just happy that her listeners can hear her again. She does not seem like the type to cut off her nose to spite her face.

And since we're told repeatedly that listening to KFOG is disloyal to AL et al... will some people's heads explode if Acoustic Sunrise really returns?

Some people probably, but from most of the comments, listeners are happy she’s back and are saying they will only listen to her show and nothing else.

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The New 10@10 / Re: Sneak Preview

« on: May 09, 2016, 05:56:04 PM »

Just listened to it. Thanks for doing this! 1983 is one of my favorite years. This feels a lot like the DM 10@10s.

Digging the less heard tracks. This one did a good job at representing a bunch of genres...but there will be later sets that lean more towards one direction or other? Many of Annalisa’s 80’s sets were heavily New-Wave leaning, which I loved...

Also, not sure if this was just my computer but the volume on some of the clips seemed a lot louder than the tracks...but I liked the selection of clips!

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news

« on: May 06, 2016, 07:38:03 PM »

Just heard on BIG 103.7 during Friday Night Flashbacks: Bronski Beat "Why?"

BIG just earned a disgruntled KFOG ex-listener.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: May 03, 2016, 02:44:32 PM »

There have been some comments on the “Save KFOG” group about how we who dislike the new format aren’t supposed to be listening to it at all. While I get what they’re saying, I don’t see the point of self-imposing a lifetime ban on listening to the station UNLESS we have a PPM (which I don’t and most/all of the people in the group don’t either.) A better strategy is to not support the advertisers. I no longer make it a point to listen to KFOG for long stretches of time like did pre-“evolution” (currently, the only station left where I do that regularly is Live 105, and occasionally Mix 106) but it’s been relegated to KOIT/KBAY/Alice/Star/Kiss/Breeze status for me which means I flip through the stations and listen to small snippets of these at a time, maybe tune in for a song if it’s new or one that I really like then move on.

If they’re trying to woo new listeners, the updated playlist isn’t helping. I think it’s even more boring that before, despite being about ~10 years newer. I’ll give them credit for a couple of underplayed 90s hits I heard (Porno for Pyros - Pets and Adam Ant - Wonderful), but that’s it. Having ten of U2’s big hits as their entire 80s repertoire makes my brain go numb.

I don’t like the Pinfield show, but I’m not going to call him Pinhead. The problem is much more comprehensive than him, so in the scheme of things calling him names just seems like a cheap shot that avoids the larger problem.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news

« on: April 22, 2016, 08:29:32 PM »

Man... do I have an open slot? Suggestions? I'm in South Bay, so reception may vary.

92.3 Bollywood FM?

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 22, 2016, 01:23:30 PM »

Grr. So much to say.

Re: Prince
So since I really only ever regularly listened to KFOG from 7-9AM, I didn't even think to tune in after hearing about Prince's passing.

Facebook comments on Greg's and KFOG's post about Matt and Greg coming back after hearing the news and playing Prince tunes mixed in with listener calls are generally positive. Looking back at my foglist, here was the playlist:

4/21/2016 12:27:02	Prince & The Revolution	Kiss
4/21/2016 12:12:01	Prince	Little Red Corvette
4/21/2016 11:45:01	Prince	When Doves Cry
4/21/2016 11:42:01	Prince	1999
4/21/2016 11:39:01	Prince	Rasberry Beret
4/21/2016 11:30:01	Prince	Purple Rain
4/21/2016 11:18:01	The Bangles	Manic Monday
4/21/2016 11:09:02	Sinead O'Connor	Nothing Compares 2 U
4/21/2016 10:42:01	Prince	Rasberry Beret
4/21/2016 10:39:02	Prince & The Revolution	Kiss
4/21/2016 10:33:02	Prince	1999
4/21/2016 10:27:01	Prince	Let's Go Crazy
4/21/2016 10:24:01	Prince	When Doves Cry
4/21/2016 10:18:01	Prince	Little Red Corvette
4/21/2016 10:09:01	Prince	Purple Rain

Yup, all the hits. Oh ok, got the Bangles and Sinead in there. Good. (Funny thing I learned yesterday - Sinead and Prince purportedly came to blows when she visited him after her recording came out.)

Still, compared to what Minneapolis' The Current radio station was spinning, it's a pretty shallow sampling. But I mean, that's the man's hometown, so not really a fair comparison.

But yeah, people listened. They called in. It was (apparently) good radio.

As much as I dislike the regime change and wish it would have been AL doing the kind of tribute that only she knows how to do -- I listened to this thing and to be fair, this is NOT the complete list of what KFOG played. Off the top of my head, we got Controversy and Prince's live version of Nothing Compares 2 U right before Sinead. There were also at least 3 or 4 others that def. weren’t the big hits. But the non-overplayed singles aren’t registering on Tunegenie.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 20, 2016, 11:29:09 AM »

There is no evolution. I don’t even like the new music. It’s about 10-20 years newer, which I should have liked but the choices are equally safe, milquetoast, and repetitive. Nothing that the real KFOG staff couldn’t have played.

What we are getting is a new morning DJ with an annoying voice, and a semi-new afternoon DJ also with an annoying voice.

And quite frankly I’ll take Tears for Fears & New Order’s most overplayed songs over over REM and U2’s most overplayed songs.

When DC took over we were getting Stone Roses, Charlatans, Enigma, Blur (other than Song 2), Belly, etc for golds and Belle & Sebastian, Noah & the Whale, Airborne Toxic songs other than Sometime Around Midnight, Fleet Foxes, etc for currents. I do not see anything like that happening this time.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 13, 2016, 04:27:46 PM »

There are still rumors circulating that Big Rick might get hired  (midday? evenings? weekends?).

From his FB page:

"Today my schedule says "lunch with a program director."
Interesting things might happen!"

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 12, 2016, 11:59:07 PM »

as to the music mix, clearly this is to be a "next-gen" Triple-A. I mean, 1990-to-now is 26 years of "gold" to choose from. And the endless repetition of Cars/Police/TFF was was of the most annoying things about KFOG the last year or so (well, that and the 5-times-a-day recurrents; songs that are at minimum a year old).

Yep. I don't have a problem so much with the updating of the music (with apologies to those who want to hear 60's and 70's all of the time)... It's the callous handling of the staff which gets up my crawl (and I suspect most others).

100% agreed.

When DC first updated the music mix, the ratings went up into the 3's. Why couldn't Cumulus see this and quit while they were ahead? It was after he also dumped the morning show, AL quit, and then he started backtracking on the playlist that the ratings started going back down again. Cumulus has no clue how to run a station.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 01, 2016, 11:49:26 PM »

Per our official source in a GS topic: No Name (along with Irish Greg) is staying.

(Seriously, of all the DJs to keep...those two?)

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 01, 2016, 11:54:52 AM »

Annalisa, Rosalie, Renee, Webster, Dred...all gone.  :’( Irish Greg is apparently staying. Not sure in what capacity.

Any word on No Name? I know he went off the air last week and it looks like his FB and Twitter haven’t been updated in about a week either. Not completely sure if he went too or if they took him out of the picture for now in order to bring him back later.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 05:26:35 PM »

You know, I kind of thought that Evolution promo sounded a little like Muse. (Don't get me wrong, I really dig that one song of theirs, "Uprising", even though I swear it steals a bit of Queens of the Stone Age's "No One Knows".)

So I was curious if much like Alice, or Jack, Evolution was perhaps a format.

God, let's hope not, eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(radio_network)

A majority of Evolution's programming tends to feature a heavy amount of EDM product but at times will play other Dance genres and an occasional classic. During the evening and weekend hours mix shows from influential performers in the world of EDM/Dance are featured.

See also: http://www.iheartevolution.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_radio

  By November 2012 KDHT would drop the format for Adult Hits, but in December 2012, WHBA, who had been programming an Adult Hits format in Boston, went the other way around and made headlines by flipping to an EDM-focused presentation, billed as "Evolution 101.7," with the call sign WEDX.

Huh: 1.5 years later they later kicked Evolution to their HD channel and switched to a country format.
http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/06/13/bull-born-evolution-101-7-fm-changing-formats-going-country-3-p-m-est/
 
(To be fair, listening to Muse now, they are *NOT* EDM.)

That new logo, 4/20, and EDM...that could be it. 

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 05:25:08 PM »

Annalisa has changed her name from "Annalisa KFOG" to "Annalisa Pop". So, no, I don't think Annalisa and 10at10 have any chance of remaining. The format may end up tolerable, but who cares? It's all about 10at10.

Nope, she is done. Check the Core Discussion board for a thread on this.

Is this the clubhouse on Facebook?